In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.
Representative from Virginia
Samuel M. S. Hopkins (1772–1837) United States Representative from New York
Lightnin' Hopkins (Sam John Hopkins 1912–1982) blues guitarist.
